Bug 551686

Summary: Touchpad mouse clicks disabled by default
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.2 Reporter: Richard Brown <RBrownCCB>
Component: GNOMEAssignee: E-mail List <gnome-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Minor    
Priority: P5 - None CC: dimstar, sndirsch, vuntz
Version: RC 2   
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Hardware: All   
OS: openSUSE 11.2   
URL: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=593629
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Description Richard Brown 2009-11-01 00:14:33 UTC 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.4) Gecko/20091016 Firefox/3.5.4 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

By default touchpad mouse clicks (the ability to tap the mousepad to 'click' the mouse) are disabled on the openSUSE 11.2 RC2 GNOME installation

This behaviour is strange, as most users would expect touchpads to be 'clickable' in their default configuration.

It can easily be enabled, assuming the user has a touchpad that has alternative buttons.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Dominique Leuenberger 2009-11-02 12:31:08 UTC 
This was reported in upstream bugzilla and considered the way to go.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=593629

We could override it in the -branding package, but not sure if this is what we want.

vuntz?
Comment 2 Vincent Untz 2009-11-02 13:04:31 UTC 
No strong opinion for me (both points of view are valid), but I'm against changing default settings in a maintenance update. So either this goes in 11.2, or this will have to be in factory for 11.3.
Comment 3 Vincent Untz 2009-11-12 10:15:25 UTC 
After some discussion with Dominique, we decided to keep this default: user who know about the possibility to have the touchpad click like this will look for the setting, while new users who don't know about this will get confused. So we agree with upstream here.

(not that it's all in the mouse properties, so really easy to set)
Comment 4 Richard Brown 2009-11-12 10:32:46 UTC 
The only issue I have with this decision is that the openSUSE 11.2 installation process has touchpad click enabled throughout. I can totally understand the decision to keep with upstream on this one, but I fear the inconsistency between installation and use may cause some confusion - I suppose I will place that in as a feature request.
Comment 5 Vincent Untz 2009-11-12 11:03:31 UTC 
Hrm, indeed, this would needed to be fixed too. Feel free to cc me on the new request.